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Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Peter Jan Honigsberg
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Description for Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Hardback. A story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. This work chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system since 2001. Num Pages: 334 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPWL; LNFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, 'Kill me!' Hunger strikers at Guantanamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human ... Read more
Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, 'Kill me!' Hunger strikers at Guantanamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254725
SKU
V9780520254725
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About Peter Jan Honigsberg
Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He visited Guantanamo in May 2007. He is author of Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (UC Press), among other books.
Reviews for Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
"Provides a compelling account of the human costs of the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US." Times Higher Education "A powerful indictment Bush's War on Terror, vivid and horrifying and hard to put down." Publishers Weekly